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I didn't word myself that well, I meant that Ruby's conflict with his son should be significant, but not necessarily as serious as Ruby's conflict with Norman. Nearly all of Ruby's issues come back to his dad failing to communicate properly with him, so the best way to show Ruby breaking the cycle is to have him face a conflict with his own son (which doesn't have to be about career/running away again), but resolve it better than Norman did. So what was a years long drama between Norman and Ruby, could just be a few honest conversations between Ruby and his own son before they move on.

Sapphire causing more parental issues instead would be interesting, her being overly smothering would contrast Ruby's past of being overly distant. But compared to Ruby's in depth lineage of mental problems, Sapphire's background will just look empty in comparison, which is why I usually don't bother imagining her having issues with her kids later. Pokespe pretends Ruby and Sapphire's stories are complete 1:1 parallels, but the absence of Sapphire's mom destroys that idea. Ruby's issues with his dad affects everything in his life especially his confused masculinity, so you'd think Sapphire would have similar issues with her mom and her confused femininity. But AFAIK Sapphire's mom is only mentioned once in her Emerald arc bio, implying the mom isn't dead, but she's never appeared. It's annoying since both of Ruby's parents are shown while only Sapphire's dad (Prof Birch) is shown.

The worst part is Kusaka knows people want to know what's up with Sapphire's mom, it's the natural question when Ruby's dad is so important. But Kusaka intentionally keeps it vague, so we get picrel where Ruby/Sapphire have a bday party and the 1 dining table chair that Sapphire's mom would be sitting in, conveniently can't fit in frame.

Though if the ORAS epilogue reveals Sapphire's mom is Professor Sada or something just as retarded, people will start mailing razors to Kusaka's house again.